Australia loves a larrikin - a rambunctious rogue who does not care about convention. In Bob Hawke, it found a natural leader, happy to play the role. He still holds the highest approval rating of ...

Australia’s first official meeting referred to as a ‘drug summit’ was convened on 2 April 1985 in Canberra by Bob Hawke.

Bob Hawke was one of Australia’s most legendary prime ministers – but as David Day recounts in Young Hawke, wild living almost ended his political career before it began. Described as ‘a ...

Australia has been riding off the back of those ... rather than from opposition prior to winning government under Bob Hawke's leadership at the 1983 election. The Hawke and Keating governments ...

ACTU president Bob Hawke in 1977. By 1977, a Melbourne University politics course titled ‘Who rules Australia?’ concluded that trade unions had the most power in the country. And such was ...